Meditation Techniques | Charlotte Carr | Activity https://meditationtechniques.org/members/charlotte/activity/ Activity feed for Charlotte Carr. Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:02:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.14.4 en-US 30 hourly 2 fe81751acc5901d1e5e2d9e85282ccff Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=83340 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:51:09 -0500 The Ten Elements of a Spiritual Life

Senior Teacher Jeffrey Carr presents The Ten Elements of a Spiritual Life (from satsang reading of Which Came First?) Senior Teacher Jeffrey Carr discusses ten…

]]> 60cc01bd2f65a3b9ffeddfe1a3d93fbf Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=83039 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 19:09:18 -0500 What the Guru Taught; the Essential Teachings of Gururaj Ananda Yogi

An experienced meditator recently asked for the essential teachings of Gururaj. Of course, deep spirituality is not something acquired by books or even from great…

]]> fa770659e3b9e0f50166d852fabfadcc Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=83037 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 19:08:54 -0500 My Guru and His Disciple

While teaching at a small college in St. Louis in the early 1980’s, I met my guru, Gururaj Ananda Yogi. Now that I am much…

]]> 77952db1ec80373ede43567c641a7dc6 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=83007 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 18:33:26 -0500 Understanding

Excerpt from UNDERSTANDING GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: Why do we human beings want to understand themselves? The reason why human beings want to understand themselves is because unconsciously…

]]> 40c62948fac38a1f4161992ab3c918a1 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=82477 Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:27:31 -0500 The Nature of Projection

Excerpt from THE NATURE OF PROJECTION GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: What is the nature of projection? Projection has no nature of its own.  But it is…

]]> 60eb3f7f399a10e3ffddb5176ac60af6 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=82032 Mon, 27 Dec 2021 22:38:31 -0500 The Smile of Krishna

Excerpt from The Smile of Krishna GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: The smile of Krishna is rather more a theme for poetry than the subject for a talk.  The smile of Krishna is the smile that smiles through the entire…

]]> 21dfd01b1fba540f92b5515e4e320fea Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78550 Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:02:06 -0500 The Nature of Personal Freedom

Excerpt from THE NATURE OF PERSONAL FREEDOM GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: What is nature? And what is freedom? You ask this question about freedom because you feel…

]]> 372c6119ea8e407a9e82f8d78dd5ef74 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78431 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:11:55 -0500 Making Spiritual Progress

Excerpt from MAKING SPIRITUAL PROGRESS Is it necessary for you to judge your (spiritual) progress? (On) the spiritual path, you do not have signposts which can be perceived by your…

]]> 8f9e6913e1ee862b2abab40db6d98227 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78425 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:07:08 -0500 Preventing the Catastrophe

Excerpt from PREVENTING THE CATASTROPHE GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: For many years now, I have been speaking (about a period) from the year 2000 onwards, 2020…

]]> 560fafab761f2fd51a3fa0d166b2285f Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78400 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:07:17 -0500 Gururaj Ananda Yogi and the Path of Unfoldment

Who was Gururaj Ananda Yogi? In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of spiritual teachers brought the ancient spiritual traditions of India to the West.…

]]> ff8875816b82e99bac1375b4ec972b99 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78334 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:10:09 -0500 Becoming Receptive to Grace

Excerpt from BECOMING RECEPTIVE TO GRACE GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: The basis of the question is, what is grace? How can something indefinable really be defined?…

]]> ae96db796e0f8e8a82ab78c468ccd033 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78332 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:09:56 -0500 Which came first?

Excerpt from WHICH CAME FIRST? GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: There is an age-old question that has never been answered: what came first, the chicken or the…

]]> a97059d69a4d8458800e44eaed3732e3 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78329 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:09:44 -0500 Sexuality and Spirituality

Excerpt from SEXUALITY and SPIRITUALITY GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: You may have very strong sexual urges and cannot fulfill them, so what do you do? Let’s first examine where these sexual urges come…

]]> cc6395ed62c7c091b38169de341f19b7 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78326 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:09:04 -0500 Discard the Ego (and be Nothing)

Excerpt from DISCARD THE EGO (AND BE NOTHING) GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: We are all children, children of God, made in His image, made in His Divinity.  Nothing can distract…

]]> 2ef6ded8c7645bfc52d8f3ff6135da6b Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78324 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:08:54 -0500 Death and Dying

Excerpt from DEATH GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: When passing over, the true meditator will learn how to die consciously. When most people die or pass over they become…

]]> 97926729fc3744a9b8b97afc5f267ddd Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78322 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:08:36 -0500 Giving Up Attachments

Excerpt from GIVING UP ATTACHMENTS GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: No one asks you to become desireless. No one asks you to be totally non‑attached. The total…

]]> 9db865dd452f9b638fbcc43015dcefce Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78320 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:08:30 -0500 What Keeps Us Apart

Excerpt from WHAT KEEPS US APART GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: We have never been separate from divinity. The ego self has caused us to feel the…

]]> 91a98e71ab4737b457ad54547e577366 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78318 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:08:22 -0500 Communion

Excerpt from COMMUNION GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI:  Now for those of you that have come for the first time on a course, let me just give…

]]> b442c3f3cf06170d489c1ee8cb0ea0bf Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78314 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:08:10 -0500 No Name, No Form

Excerpt from NO NAME, NO FORM GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: To reach the highest form of meditation is not the destruction of the senses. The senses…

]]> d4abc3a6bdd05f604a5076edfc10e8da Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78312 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:07:54 -0500 Awareness

Excerpt from THE NATURE OF AWARENESS GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: Does awareness have any nature? When you use the words ‘nature of awareness,’ you are applying…

]]> 47e43ff23f9f0eec4292f2e5a0a293bf Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78310 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:07:48 -0500 Mantra

Excerpt from MANTRA GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: Last night I was asked to speak on mantra; how a mantra is derived, what is the purpose of…

]]> ddbb3b558c4cb4085bd88bd4ac832891 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78308 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:07:38 -0500 The Search for Self

Excerpt from ‘The Search for Self’  GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: When we talk about the (Spiritual) Search, we might think of a lot of book titles: The Search for God; Search for the…

]]> 69500332bb820fa929f41c8b6fdbd5a3 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78305 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:07:21 -0500 Living in Non-Attachment

Excerpt from LIVING IN NON-ATTACHMENT GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: Attachment lies in your craving for the object of attachment. But you can be totally non-attached in admiration of the trees, the leaves,…

]]> e014b33b02c7633a95172fd6161088d1 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78303 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:07:15 -0500 What is the Purpose of Life?

Excerpt from WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: If (everything is an illusion, and) none of this is really happening anyway, what…

]]> 2727fbe4fee222063e617bb277b505d6 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78301 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:07:01 -0500 Pain

Excerpt from WHY IS PAIN?  GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI:  Why is pain?  Very profound.  Why should there be pain and the deep agony involved in pain?  …

]]> 4b643cf7a1008be7345d682fa5239449 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78299 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:06:48 -0500 What is Silence?

Excerpt from WHAT IS SILENCE? GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI:  The question does not involve what silence is, but what silence means.  (The meaning of) silence can only be found in silence.  If you cannot…

]]> cfcabe118d1745188cd5719d328e3655 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78297 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:06:32 -0500 The Process of Life

Excerpt from THE PROCESS OF LIFE GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: There is only one God, one Divine energy and yet we call It by different names, don’t we?  And it is…

]]> a095d96091ab22a2e490c87959bd595a Charlotte Carr posted a new post. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78295 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:06:22 -0500 Excerpt from “UNDERSTANDING”

GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: Why do we human beings want to understand themselves? The reason why human beings want to understand themselves is because unconsciously they feel themselves t […]

]]> 043e8177ae5ae67aa1fe6dfcabb82957 Charlotte Carr posted a new lesson. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=78292 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:05:55 -0500 The Relationship Between God and Man

Excerpt from THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND MAN  GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: The cause of man seeming to be separated from God is a total misconception that has been fostered by so‐called church organizations.…

]]> 2032bf7a3aa1c20694188a05146f099e Charlotte Carr posted a new post. https://meditationtechniques.org/?p=75187 Sat, 09 Oct 2021 23:08:49 -0400
Affirmation Prayer

In this article you will learn what an affirmation prayer is, and how to effectively engage in this powerful form of prayer.

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